Open Internet by MindsNet

Digital Life & Technology Culture

Research on attention span without distractions I'm trying to understand whether attention spans are actually shrinking. I'm looking for a study measuring attention span in laboratory conditions, without phones around or use of computers with access to the internet. Just a simple "people can focus on a task for x minutes with no other distractions compared to y minutes thirty years ago" study. Surely that's been done recently, right? Why is it so hard to find?